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bparsons wrote: post #294

I don't know anyone who would want this. Nobody wants to be around someone in social situations who might be surreptitiously filming them. Wearing glasses with a camera on them is a great way to be labelled a creep by everyone around you.

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kart23 wrote: post #108

The livestreaming usecase is honestly incredible. I really wonder how they managed to pull it off given the insane battery and size constraints and the technical details. I would be surprised if it could do more than 20 minutes of continuous livestreaming at an acceptable resolution.

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Re: Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses

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vunderba wrote: post #438
esafak wrote: post #244

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Correct, and people do have expectations, albeit reduced, of privacy in public too. Moreover, this expectation is thankfully backed by the law in various jurisdictions. I would very much like to see those rights beefed up for the machine learning age, after reading all these comments. Or would you like to live in a panopticon like the Chinese? Hey, you're on PUBLIC property, citizen! Smile for the camera, and don't t…

I'm surprised you're not already aware that this is already the norm. The number of cc style cameras in London alone should give you pause. If we're already dealing with ubiquitous recording in public , I'd rather give some of that power back to individuals rather than the government.

It is not the norm everywhere and, in any case, we should push back. It gives me no joy to walk past video surveillance cameras. They stick out like sore thumbs to me and make me feel treated like a potential criminal.

I believe we reclaim no power by recording our fellow citizens going about their daily lives. We merely augment the corpus of corporations and governments.

My beef with these smart glasses is that while they can be used to document crimes, I estimate they will typically be used for mundane purposes, while eroding the privacy of law-abiding citizens. More so than cell phones, which require you to at least hold the thing up and press a button. You will do so to document a crime, but not to mindlessly and continuously record everything you see. This changes the balance.

Re: Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses

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Post by AmericanChopper »

scrumper wrote: post #425
jperras wrote: post #277

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> Imagine if you could take a picture of anything, add a little note, have it filed away. Not necessarily an awesome Instagram picture, but just a picture of some mail you got, a tool you are putting away, any thing you want to record and save. Heck, why not a picture of your computer screen? Pair that with quickly available audio transcriptions and you can also dictate anything, thoughts, small notes, information as…

I am currently in the middle of rebuilding a pair of 6.2L small block Chevrolet engines. By a factor of six these are the largest engines I've ever worked on, and the rebuild is far more extensive than anything I've attempted before too. During the teardown, part of my process (let's not dignify it with "workflow") has been photographing the incredible amount of crap that's been bolted to the engines as I remove piec…

I’m pretty sure industrial processes are one of the only areas that smart glasses have achieved any real success, and for pretty much the reasons you’re describing here.
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